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Business which had to do with the cache they had lifted froer than expected He returned in the night and did not get up when the triangle jangled for breakfast In fact, it ell into the forenoon when he appeared, only to learn that Miss Eyester had gone off with old Mr Penrose to look at an eagle's nest
"What did he do that for?" Pinkey demanded of Wallie
"I presume he wanted her company," Wallie replied, composedly, entertained by the ferocity of Pinkey's expression
"Is he a dude or is he a duder that he has to go guidin' people to see sights they prob'ly don't want to look at?"
"She seeo," Wallie answered
Pinkey sneered: "Mebbe I'd better git ates and unsaddle fer 'earded his partner calmly
"Pinkey, you're jealous"
"Jealous! Me jealous of an old Methuselah that don't know enough to ht his eyebrows, as he laughed hollowly "Why, I could show her a barrel of eagles' nests! I knohur there's a coyote den with pups in it! I knohur there's a petrified tree and oceans of Injun arrer heads, if she'd jest waited But if anybody thinks I'in' a worman, they're mistaken!" Pinkey stamped off to the bunk-house and slammed the door behind hieneral when it was observed that his chair was vacant at dinner
"Still reposing, I i co"
"Oh, very" Wallie winked at hi that the 99 per cent alcoholic content of one of Mr Tucker's bottles undoubtedly accounted for his weariness
"You are sure he's not ill?" inquired Miss Eyester She had not enjoyed her revenge upon Pinkey, for going aithout telling her, as le's nest turned out to be a crows' nest with no birds in it, and that was disappointing
Mr Hicks, who frequently joined in the conversation when anything interested him, snorted from the kitchen doorway: "Ill? You couldn't make him 'ill' with a club with nails in it--that feller"
"Oh, how dread-ful!" Aunt Lizzie clasped her hands, and looked at the brutal cook reprovingly
"Perhaps one of us had better awaken hi"
"Hor! Hor! Hor!" Mr Hicks laughed raucously "Maybe he don't feel like eating Let him alone and he'll come out of it"